Conference on environment

"In and Out Air Strategies. From Climate Change to Microclimate.
Library, Archives and Museum Preservation Issues"
Bibliotheque nationale de France
5-6 March 2009
The IFLA-PAC Core Activity will organize an international cycle of
conferences in 2009-2010 on Preservation and the Four Elements: Air,
Water, Earth and Fire.
The first conference will be devoted to Air and will be held in
Paris, at the BnF, on March, 5-6, 2009. Its title is: "In and Out
Air Strategies: From Climate Change to Microclimate. Library,
Archives and Museum Preservation Issues".
Draft Programme
Thursday March 5, 2009
8:45-9:30 Registrations
9:30-9:45 Opening speech by Valerie Vesque-Jeancard,
Deputy CEO, National Library of France
First session
Climate change and cultural heritage
9:45-10:30 Global climate change
By Robert Kandel, Senior Scientist at the
French National Centre for Scientific
Research (CNRS), Laboratory of dynamic
meteorology, Ecole polytechnique
10:30-11am Global climate change impact on built
heritage: presentation of the Noah's Ark
project
By Carlotta Grossi, Senior Research
Associate, School of Environmental Sciences,
University of East Anglia
11:00-11:15 Questions
11:15-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:45 Prevention strategies against
climate-related events
11:30-12:00 DARE, Data rescue project, applied to the
Europe storms history
By Pierre Bessemoulin, President of WMO (UN
World Meteorological Organization)
Commission for Climatology
12-12:30 Wind resistance strategies for cultural
heritage buildings in the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina
By Elizabeth C. English, Associate
Professor, University of Waterloo School of
Architecture (Canada), Louisiana State
University Hurricane Centre Faculty Advisor
(USA)
12:30-12:45 Questions
12:45-14:30 Lunch break (own arrangements)
Second session
Microclimate and indoor air quality in cultural heritage
institutions
14:30-15:15 Libraries and Museums: indoor air quality in
storage
By Thi Phuong Nguyen, Chemical engineer,
National Library of France, and Michel
Dubus, Engineer, Centre of research and
restoration of museums of France
15:15-15:45 Measuring the emission of volatile organic
compounds from books
By Velson Horie, Research Project Manager,
Collection Care, British Library
15:45-16:15 Presentation of the AER European project
(Assessment of Environmental risk related to
unsound use of technologies and mass
tourism)
Contributor to be confirmed.
16:00-16:30 Air quality in display cases
By Brigitte Leclerc, Biologist, Laboratory
of conservation departement, and Caroline
Laffont, Microbiologist, National Library of
France
16:30-17:00 Debate/questions
Friday March 6
Third session
Air management
9-9:30 Introduction
9:30-12:30 Round Table, with specialists from
libraries, museums and archives
Jean-Luc Bichet
Architect, Direction of Archives of
France
France Saae Belaasch
Architect, Direction of Archives of
France
Tim Padfield
Chemist, Consultant in preventive
conservation in museums
Bruno Bonandrini
Heat Engineer, Head of air-conditioning
service, National Library of France
9:30-11:00 I. Air management and preservation: which
conditions are acceptable? Evolutions of
standards.
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:45 II. Technical evolution from
air-conditioning to natural ventilation and
thermal inertia. Air-conditioning: the pros
and cons. Towards hybrid buildings and
solutions.
12:45-14:30 Lunch break (own arrangements)
Fourth session
Air research and development
Anoxy, as a way of preserving, disinfecting
and protecting collections
14:00-14:30: Anoxic encasements for select treasures:
presentation of the project led by the
Library of Congress
By Dr Fenella France, Preservation
Directorate, Library of Congress (To be
confirmed)
14:30-15:00 Collections disinfection: experimentation of
Veloxy (VEry Low OXYgen) by the Biblioteca
Marciana, Italy
By Tiziana Plebani, Head of preservation and
restoration, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana,
Venezia, Italy (To be confirmed)
15:00-15:30 Low-oxygen storage project at the British
Library
By John de Lucy, Head of Estates and
Facilities, the British Library Healthcare
and Aerospace Research Applied to Cultural
Heritage
15:30-16:00 Presentation of the air purifier Plasmair,
experimented by the French Archives of
Savoie
By Pierre Lafargue, in charge of preventive
conservation, Archives of Savoie, France
16:00-16:30 Conclusions
Registration is now open.
You can find all the information on the conference at:
<URL:http://www.ifla.org/
VI/4/conf/preservation-four-elements-1_2009-march.htm>
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email. There should be no newline.
To register your attendance at this Conference, please complete the
registration form and return it before the 28 February 2009:
By post to the following address:
Christiane Baryla
Programme PAC-IFLA
Delegation aux relations internationales
Bibliotheque nationale de France
Quai Francois Mauriac
75706 Paris Cedex 13
France
Or by email to flore.izart<-at->bnf<.>fr
or by fax to +33 0 1 53 79 59 80
We will acknowledge receipt of your registration form by e-mail.
Flore Izart
IFLA-PAC Programme Officer
Bibliotheque nationale de France
Paris
+33 0 1 53 79 59 71
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